Quote Originally Posted by Noids View Post
Considering they have increased the amount of memory and the speed at which it is utilised through better/more processors, it does seem a bit strange that they have gone from a 384bit bus in the 580 to a 256 bus in the 680 again... Almost feels like they are deliberately gimping this build a bit like they were forced to with the 480 (albeit disabling shaders due to thermal problems which this card does not appear to have) so that the next gen card can use fairly similar architecture to achieve much better performance through simple upgrades (Assuming memory bus and buffer size will be improved) for the 780?
ie. Fermi MkI (480) Fermi MkII (580)
Kepler MkI (680) Kepler MkII (780?)
It's easier to do that than create new architecture every generation.